Motorola handphone – More options, less hassle

Motorola Handphone, CHOICE is what the MotoSurf A3100 offers when it comes to how users interact with this sleek Motorola smartphone designed for both personal and professional communications.

The touch tablet device has a 2.8-inch TFT touch-screen that allows the user to input text and select menus by either using the stylus provided, roller ball navigation or simply a touch of a finger through flicking and rolling gestures.

It also features handwriting recognition technology, which means any text written by the user with the stylus will automatically correspond and select the appropriate letters with the written text.

Also featured on the quad-band GSM device are 3G support, integrated Wi-Fi, a three-megapixel camera with a secondary VGA shooter, Google Maps, Bluetooth, messaging and e-mail, a media player and video conferencing capability.

Layered on top of the Windows Mobile 6.1 software, the phone’s home screen is customisable.You can select the icons to show whatever you need regularly, be they updates on local weather, Really Simple Syndication feeds, news, personal and work e-mail, messaging or calendar events.

Toggling back and forth between documents while on the go, listening to MP3 files, video conferencing on the run, updating your Facebook status, or using a GPS to navigate from point A to B – all are reasonably easy with the MotoSurf.

With Windows, the phone allows PC-like browsing with Internet Explorer or Opera. With Windows Media Player, you can transfer music, videos and images from a PC with ease as well as stream videos from YouTube anytime, anywhere.

Motorola Malaysia offers two extra applications: SongID and ShoZu. These applications are uploaded onto a one-gigabyte Micro Secure Digital card so it can be conveniently and quickly installed onto the device.

SongID recognises and displays tune information while ShoZu allows you to easily share the photos you’ve captured on your phone with your chosen online networks. Motorola says with ShoZu, you can send photos and videos to over 50 Web sites, including social networking sites, blogs, photo and news sites, and even e-mail addresses.

You can expect up to six hours of talk time on the MotoSurf and up to 288 hours standby with a full charge of the phone’s battery. At 110 millimetres by 60mm by 14mm and weighing 119 grams, the device can be stored and used with ease and not weigh you down. Go online to see the MotoSurf in action.